Gary Coleman on Life Support; Wikipedia Expects the Worst

Following a fall on Wednesday, actor Gary Coleman has sufferedan increasingly serious brain hemorrhage. He’s now in intensive care at a Utah hospital. “He's unconscious and on life support at the moment,” his manager told People.

Wikipedia, as it is wont to do, has played the role of the pessimist, with some editors already citing Coleman’s death year as 2010 on his profile page. “He's not dead, so years active is still 1978-Present, which also means he's still married,” admonished a more optimistic contributor, corrected the offending dates. Even earlier, Wiki contributors started changing verb tenses in morbid fashion. “[Coleman] ’is’ an actor, not ‘was’ an actor,” wrote one, and swiftly edited the entry. Anyway, let’s hope Coleman’s condition is improving.